We've gotten this far because workers in Olympia have been coming together and raising their voices over the past year to demand a $15 minimum wage and workers' rights. We've gone on strike, marched in the streets, and met with politicians. With the new ordinance being introduced, the city council needs to continue to hear from us.

Taking care of people is what I do. It’s what I’ve done my whole life and we deserve better. We deserve to have a living wage. We’re taking it one city at a time and Olympia is next! I support the $15 for Olympia!

— Sharon Kitchel, Olympia homecare worker

$15 an hour is really striking it right in the middle. It’s a reasonable ask. It’s not money that’s going to be going into stocks and bonds and yachts either. It’s money that’s going to go directly back to our economy, to local businesses. $15 is a living wage.

— Luke Bridges, Olympia restaurant worker

We have very beautiful and vibrant local businesses here that are really suffering because the common person doesn’t have enough money to go shop at those places. There are so many little restaurants and little boutiques that I would love and go be a patron of, but I don’t have the extra money at the end of the month. I barely have enough to pay my bills.

About Working Washington: Our mission is to build a powerful workers’ movement that can not only dramatically improve wages and working conditions, but can also change the local and national conversation about wealth, inequality, and the value of work. More info…

Our mission is to build a powerful workers’ movement that can not only dramatically improve wages and working conditions, but can also change the local and national conversation about wealth, inequality, and the value of work.

Working Washington fast food strikers sparked the fight that won Seattle's landmark $15 minimum wage. We drove Amazon to sever ties with right-wing lobby group ALEC and improve conditions in their sweatshop warehouses. And we helped lead the winning campaign in SeaTac for a $15 living wage.